Acting
El Hedi ben Salem
1936 · Morocco
11 films
Bio
El Hedi ben Salem was a Moroccan actor. He is best known as the lover and collaborator of provocative German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. He died while in prison. Fassbinder dedicated his last film, Querelle (1982), to Salem. In 2012, a documentary on Salem's life entitled My Name Is Not Ali, premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival.
Filmography
Querelle
Thanks
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Ali
The Merchant of Four Seasons
Araber
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
Set Production Assistant
Fox and His Friends
Salem the Moroccan (uncredited)
Martha
Hotel Guest
My Name Is Not Ali
Self (archive footage)
Jail Bait
Tenderness of the Wolves
Französischer Soldat
When Fear Eats the Soul
Ali (archive footage)
Like a Bird on a Wire
Bodybuilder